BEATLES BREAK UP REASONS REVEALED IN GET BACK

The Beatles break up runs through the Get Back documentary.

The lads joke about it, work through it, and eventually the end is near.

Why the break up of the greatest band ever assembled?

They weren’t as happy together as they were alone.

The sadness of Get Back is hard to watch; you see it in every face.

George is the saddest of all because he has more to offer the band.

He’s got more based on what he contributed in the past, what he was allowed to contribute.

What’s clear in the second part, when John and Paul talk alone with a mic secretly planted at their table, was the dynamic between those two.

They felt sorry for George, who’d up and left the sessions.

Paul and John knew they’d crossed a musical line with George. Could they continue without him?

Could they continue with him?

Paul said John had always been the boss, and that’s the root of the Beatles break up.

Meet The New Boss

In scene after scene Paul explains how he wants the other Beatles to play on his songs.

Ringo should do this, George should do that, and John would do the rest.

Ringo could hit the mark, but George had other ideas on what sounded good for his parts.

He explained his process, which is what a good bandmate does. Then he was ignored.

Which is why bands break up. The Beatles were no different.

They were the back up band for Paul’s songs, then the back up band for John’s numbers.

George who?

Paul was playing a role as The Man in Get Back.

John was the guy who wanted to sit in, get his songs done, and cuddle with Yoko.

George wanted a bigger voice, but Paul was the driver.

Paul said the group needed a schedule, a program, needed to show up on time and put in the work like a real job.

John made fun of a work schedule with, “We should all get haircuts and straighten up.”

With a deadline on the horizon, Paul felt the pressure to produce new songs worthy of The Beatles.

The Best Beatle?

Paul is currently on tour.

His bands, and songs, his overall musical output after the Beatles, is staggering.

He is first and foremost a music man.

Listening to him work out his now famous songs in Get Back feels like a dream now. Paul said some of his songs come to him in dreams, so that checks out.

Were The Beatles holding Paul back?

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George kept giving the band a chance to do his songs, but they didn’t leave a deep impression on the group.

He may have been the most sensitive of the group, the little brother who wanted to sit at the big table with the grown ups.

His guitar work carried his brand, but it wasn’t the brand Paul wanted, not the sound Paul wanted.

George’s work after The Beatles showed an artist in touch with more than a fretboard.

After the breakup of The Beatles, Harrison pursued a solo career. He immediately assembled a studio band consisting of ex-Beatle Starr, guitar legend Eric Clapton, keyboardist Billy Preston and others to record all the songs that had never made it on to The Beatles catalog.

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Every time I see John in Get Back he looks disconnected, like his role in the group has changed and he can’t find a new one.

Instead of leading the group, he seems to take a passive/aggressive approach. But, to watch him cut loose on vocals is to watch a force of nature.

When John dials into a song The Beatles are his band. Did The Beatles break up because they didn’t follow John’s lead?

Or George’s lead? Or Paul?

When the discussion between John and Paul about George delves into compromise, musical compromise, they agree everyone needs to try harder.

And that’s the answer to The Beatles break up.

Paul: “Do it my way.”

George: “But I want to do it my way.”

John: “Whatever, I’ll just improvise.”

Which makes Ringo the Best Beatle.

When asked about the Beatles break up later he said, “I would have stayed with the band.”

New Fans Don’t Need To Know About The Beatles Break Up

I tried to watch Get Back as background television and turned it off.

I finally got uninterrupted viewing while my grand baby took a nap on Granddad.

The conversations, music, and visuals couldn’t have been better.

Baby soaked it all in, sleeping like a champ with The Beatles in her background.

I watched four young guys in their late twenties, their wives and kids, all bracing for an uncertain future.

Their future isn’t so uncertain in 2022, and that makes it even more sad.

They wrote the songs that defined the early Beatles when they were all bright and fresh faced together in the same room.

In Get Back they look more middle-aged. Was it the wear and tear of fame? Or realizing the dream of being at the Top of the Pops has more than a few nightmarish moments?

When fans love you so much they want to tear you to shreds can’t be a comfort.

The lesson baby and I learned was to dream your dream and see where it goes.

Then get ready for a different kind of work.

Paul saw the music work ahead and he’s still doing it.

John saw Yoko and they worked on their sound.

George didn’t want to argue anymore.

Ringo stayed steady and on time.

Sleeping baby listened to grandpa humming Let It Be.

It was a Beatles moment.